Carol (Antonsen) Kroetch

Carol Marie Antonson was born to Harold Joseph Antonson (1909-1988) and Marguerite Elizabeth Keenan (1906-1955), and had three brothers: Harold Hugh (born 1938), George Alfred (1939-2018), and Hugh James Antonson (1944-2016). She married John R. Izzie Sr. (born 1938) on January 1960 in Manalapan, Monmouth New Jersey, and they had a son John Hugh Kroetch. Carol and John Izzie Sr. later divorced, and she married Frank Kroetch on December 28th 1968 in Kootenai Idaho.

Frank Kroetch was one of four siblings and was born to Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch and Hollis "Joe" Joseph Kroetch. As far as I know (grandson), Frank and his brother & two sisters had a bit of a rough childhood, having been separated into different groups living with various family members. He was one of the youngest to serve on the USS Killen for the U.S Navy in World War II. In fact, he lived his entire life thinking he was the youngest crew mate on the ship (he lied about his age to serve in WW2), but found out in the late 1990's at a Killen shipmates reunion in San Francisco that one lad had him beat by a handful of days. He married Marian "Joyce" Benning and had two children Kathy Pinna and Pamela Marks. He later married Carol (Antonsen) Kroetch and they raised John Kroetch. He was a very smart man (with an IQ that tested between 165 and 185) and good looking - charismatic! He was a life-long entrepreneur starting numerous businesses in various industries after attending the University of Washington and graduating from San Jose State University. He lived in both California (where his daughters were born) and Washington (where he was born and died). Frank was never baptized (as far as his child Kathy knows) and has no burial site. He was cremated and his ashes distributed between his wife and two daughters. He was quite a human being and we all miss him every day.